Resin driveway

[spick19]

Hello.
After some advice on what could have caused this issue, it was completed by a contractor whom put the resin over existing block paving , it has only been down 2 weeks and waited 3 days before customer put car in garage, however you can see how the edges have broken away .
Any advice be appreciated

 

[jj4091]

I don't think those edgeing strips are meant to be driven over. Has the whole drive been done or just that middle section. If its the whole drive then it should have been the same level all across and I would be chasing him to recify it

 

[noseall]

Hello.
After some advice on what could have caused this issue, it was completed by a contractor whom put the resin over existing block paving , it has only been down 2 weeks and waited 3 days before customer put car in garage, however you can see how the edges have broken away .
Any advice be appreciated

Tile trim on a driveway?
WTF!!

You've been had.

 

[Old Salt]

Those edges are for ceramic tiles surely!

 

[noseall]

Those edges are for ceramic tiles surely!

Correct.

There should be robust and chunky edge protection in place, for such a design. It's all poorly thought out really - i.e. having a pathway like that, with vehicular traffic and vulnerable décor edges.

Tile trim FFS.

 

[kp00110]

Looks like a wheelchair ramp what was ever the plan here

 

[phatboy]

Were they travelling folk...?

 

[jj4091]

Those edges are for ceramic tiles surely!

No, those are the edgeing strips they use for resin dives but normally in a position where they can't get damaged,but I could not tell from the pics if the whole drive had been done in 2 colours, where the edgeing should been supported by the resin at the same level alongside it, or just a path in the middle.

 

[Koolpc]

Waw, that is def travellers work! Good luck in getting them back to fix that!

 

[noseall]

No, those are the edgeing strips they use for resin dives but normally in a position where they can't get damaged

Where would that apply? I can't see them being much use as an exposed edge.

That winding pathway should have been edged with slightly raised kerbs or cobble sets or some such and haunched with concrete.

 

[jj4091]

Where would that apply? I can't see them being much use as an exposed edge.

That winding pathway should have been edged with slightly raised kerbs or cobble sets or some such and haunched with concrete.

Often next to a lawn, but they still need haunching, which does not appear to have been done on that pic.. That is why I asked if it was just to hold the path in place until the main body was done around the path or the rest was just loose gravel.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Yes, it's definitely tile edging strip for use in a bathroom.

Besides that though... resin over block paving? That will fall apart, as the blocks inevitably move you'll eventually see the outline of each one coming through as a crack.

You talk about "contractor" and "customer". Are you the person who's taken payment for this and subcontracted it out? If so then you need to buy your customer a proper driveway.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Well google proved us all wrong...

Valiant Resin Bound Trims

Excellent quality Aluminium Resin Bound trims, perfect for the application of Resin Bound Surfacing. Easy to install Aluminium Resin Bound profiles to create perimeter edge protection or linear definition on borders, shapes, logos or day work joints. These Resin Bound Trims are 2.5m in length...

vubaresin.com

Apparently it's the real deal, this Vuba stuff is intended for use with driveways.

In which case the problem is that I don't think it's intended as an edging (i.e. kerb). It's for use in dividing areas with different coloured gravels, so needs to be supported on both sides.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

But you really shouldn't put the stuff over block paving, even the people flogging the stuff advise against it...

Can resin be laid over block paving or flagstones? - Resin Mixed Stone

If you have block paving & are looking at Resin for your drive you may be asking, "Can resin be laid over block paving or flagstones"

www.resinmixedstone.co.uk

Unless they're bedded on concrete, which they almost never are.